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Six example sentences with acephalous, each labelled with its topic.
Several highland societies were acephalous, settling disputes in open assembly because no single family held authority over the rest.
History
The movement stayed deliberately acephalous, with rotating spokespeople and no committee that could speak for the whole membership.
Politics
The network was designed to be acephalous, so no single machine can be switched off to stop the others.
Technology
The founders ran an acephalous company for two years, with decisions made by whoever showed up to the Monday meeting.
Startups
The guild stayed acephalous by design, with no officer rank and raid plans settled by a vote in the chat.
Gaming
Anarchist writers imagined an acephalous society in which coordination emerged from agreement rather than from anyone's command.
Philosophy
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